Professor Sheehan Spent Most of the Class Session Lecturing on Different

question 51

Multiple Choice

Professor Sheehan spent most of the class session lecturing on different aspects of memory, and ended by reminding her students of the test at the next class session. After her students had shuffled out of the classroom, Professor Sheehan noticed astudent's cellphone on a desk toward the back of the classroom. The student forgetting his cellphone is an everyday example of _____ that is most probably due to _____.

• A)inattentional blindness; source amnesia
• B)source amnesia; retrieval cue failure
• C)prospective memory; retrieval cue failure
• D)absentmindedness; encoding failure

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Definitions:

Interneurons

Neurons that transmit signals between sensory neurons and motor neurons, playing a critical role in the reflexes and central nervous system.

Glial Cells

Non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system that do not produce electrical impulses but support, nourish, and protect the neurons.

Dendrites

Dendrites are extensions of neurons that receive signals from other neurons and are crucial for neural communication and processing.

Axons

Long, threadlike extensions of neurons that transmit electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body to other neurons or to muscles or glands.